Altar Call.
- Altar Call. Thousands celebrated the reopening of
Rwanda’s Episcopal cathedral in July. The original
cathedral was heavily damaged during the 1994 war in
which more than 800,000 people were killed.
- Viva PBS. In the second season of the PBS drama
"American Family," Conrado (played by Yancy
Arias, above) is sent to Iraq where he struggles with the
media’s glorification of war and must disobey a
commanding officer in order to follow his conscience in
obedience to a higher power.
- Great Wall. Chinese Web-users are denied access to a wide
range of foreign religious sites, according to Forum 18
news service. The Chinese government’s firewall,
used to censor the Internet, blocks access to religious
Web sites - including a number of Catholic sites and
those related to religious persecution and the Dalai
Lama.
- Vote Watch. Global Exchange’s Fair Elections
initiative is hosting international election monitors to
observe U.S. pre-electoral conditions and the Nov. 2
elections. The monitors will apply internationally
developed standards of electoral fairness to investigate
and report on issues of concern to the U.S. electorate,
according to the press release.
- Don’t Cry. Nobel peace laureate Adolfo Perez
Esquivel presented new evidence against the World Bank
and IMF, charging them with placing Argentina’s
government in "a state of need due to the
application of economic policies that were imposed -
indirectly or directly - by the IMF." Perez Esquivel
said, "The resulting situation risks dissolving the
national state."
